Dead in an hour, but on whose order?

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Details emerging about the kidnappings have raised questions about the Israeli government’s insistence that they were carried out by Hamas with high-level involvement. Israeli security sources believe the young men were killed within as little as an hour of their abduction outside Hebron.

After the lifting of a gagging order, authorities released the recording of a phone call one of the teenagers made to police 25 minutes after they got into the kidnappers’ car, a stolen Israeli-plated Hyundai. After he whispers that the three have been kidnapped, a flurry of loud noises, possibly gunshots, can be heard, followed by groaning.